Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Continuation of Consideration of the Bill — 17 Jan 2011 at 24:14
The majority of members of the House of Lords voted to continue their consideration of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
The House of Lords was considering the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill[1]. The motion rejected in this vote, held at twenty six minutes past midnight, was:
- That the House do now resume.
Had it been passed this motion would have resulted in the House of Lords stopping its consideration of the Bill; as it was the consideration continued, punctuated by a number of votes to stop the debate, until just before 1pm the day after it started[2].
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.| Party | Majority (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
| Con | 124 (+1 tell) | 0 | 58.4% |
| Crossbench | 8 | 8 | 8.5% |
| Lab | 0 | 110 (+2 tell) | 46.9% |
| LDem | 53 (+1 tell) | 0 | 60.0% |
| Total: | 185 | 118 | 42.0% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.